Updated: Sunday, November 5th, 2000
Still possessing a vestigial knowledge of ancient myths?
Then, apply your cunning to our cryptic descriptions in the boxes below:
One letter given and each X representing one other letter.
Having reached the right conclusions you'll read an ancient name
in the column marked with red.
|1.||X||X||X||X||A|| If you have some Greek, it may seem this land
once must have swarmed with wolves
|2.||X||X||L||X||X||X||X|| By a spiralling way they went up the hill, while
of music and songs the echo was nil
|3.||X||X||X||E||X||X|| Beside this sacred well even the goddess of
peace would choose to rest in peace herself
|4.||X||X||D||X||X||X|| Once her face was lifted by Athene
this former beauty was not amused
|5.||X||X||X||X||X||U||X|| A famous horse, do I need more to say than
that by air, and not on land he made his way
|6.||X||X||X||X||X||X||O||X||X||X||X|| But for this mounted hero, you would hardly
find a connection between the inventor of the
telephone and the erotic industry
|7.||X||X||X||E||X||X|| Stone-old they were, and grey of hair
One eye, one tooth for three to share
|8.||X||X||X||X||X||E||X|| A king of 1., of little renown, whinnying "io!",
whenever he fingered his collection of boa ties
Did you find the solution? The full name in the marked column?
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